Jacquard-card repeating and transposing machine



L. HERZOG.

JACQ'UARD CARD REPE AT|NG AND IRANSPOSiNG MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I, 1920.

Patented July 18, 1922.

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L. HERZOG.

JAC'QUARD CARD REPEATING AND TRANSPOSING MACHINE.

Patented July 18, 19212.

0 2 9 .L P E s D E L H N W T A C H P P A m MN w I I I v l n LOUIS HEEZOG, OF BEACON, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR TO GLENI-IAM EMBROIDERY COMPANY, OF BEACON, lil'EXV YORK, A CORPGRATION OF NEW YORK.

JAGQUARD-GARD REPEATING AND 'TRANS POSING MACHINE.

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i Application filed September To all an 710m it may concern it known that 1, Louis Hnnzoe, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beacon, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jacquard- (lard Repeating and Transposing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for repeating jacquard cards for use in embroidering machine jacquards. V In machines of this class the operation of the machine is controlled by means of aimaster jacquard card which has been previously made on a manually controlled punching machine, the previously made card serving to control the punching of one or more similar cards in the repeating machine. Heretotore, the cards made on the repeating machines have been exact duplicates of the master card. The object of my present invention is to provide means for transposing the perforations in the repeat card in order that when the card is used to control the jacquard of an embroidering machine the design produced by the embroidering machine will be repositioned from a righthand to a left hand position, or vice versa. In making embroidered designs on the Swiss embroidering machines it isvery often desirable to reproduce a figure or design in difrent positions. For instance, where a n is made for the corners of handkerchieitsit is often desirable to reposition the figure or design -lor each of the four corners and heretofore it has been necessary for an operator to make an original jac quaiwil card for each position in which the design was to be placed and, in the case tool handkerchiets it-was necessary to provide four original jacquard cares in order to place the design in the four corners, even through the design, except for its position, was the same for each corner. in

the present machine it is possible to repeat a jacquard card and to automatically transpose the perforations, so that a previously made jacquard card may be used as a master to control the punching of a repeat card, which, when used inthe jacs quard will reproduce the design in a transposed position. If the master card ismade to place the design in, say, a left hand position, the repeated and transposed card will reproduce the design in a right hand position. Or, it the master card is adapt- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

that of my copending application filed con currently herewith, Ser. No. 407,428, the cards necessary for producing a design in say all four corners of handkerchiefs may all be made from the one master, which latter is the only one which has to be made by manual operation, the other three being reproduced automatically therefrom on the devices of my said cop'ending case and the present case. lVhile the device of my said copendinp; case is adapted to so transpose the perforations as to cause the design to be inverted or turned over vertically, the present device is adapted to secure a jacquard card which will turn the design over from right to left or vice versa. l

I have shown my invention adapted for what is known as the Groebli system although it will be understood that my invention is not limited in its use to this particular system.

In the drawings rorming part of this applicati. on,

, Figure lis a View of a pattern showing the effect of transposing the perforations on the jacquard card, v i

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a machine embodying my invention,

Figure 3 is a plan view showing, the ar rangement of the selecting slides,

Figure l is a cross sectional view showing the punches and their locking members and frame, v

Figure 5 is a plan view of a portion of the machine, and

Figure 6 is a detail elevation of some of the slides and their guiding support.

Many oi? the parts of the present machine correspond with those of the machines heretofore used and I will describeherein only so much of the entire machine, as necessary to teach those skilledain the art the present improvements. Generally, repeatinp; machines include needles which acted upon by the original or master jacquard i card, these needles being reciprocated or remaining stationary at each operation of the machine, according to whether any'particin lar needle meets with asolid portion of the master cardo r aligns with an aperture therein. in the drawings I have shown. a bank ofneedles 1 which reciprocate horizontally in the slide frame 2. The needles 1 are staggered as in the well known Groebh svstern in order that the perforations across the card may be arranged closer together than the size of the needles or pi'inches will. permit and the jacquard card makes two reciprocations for each complete transverse row of perforations and it is advanced the distance between the upper and lower needles in Figure 6 between two of the reciprocations, as in present practice. These nee dles 1 are the elements or members which are directly acted upon by the master jacquard card for controlling the pertorating of the repeated card. The master card 3, arranged upon a roller (not shown) passes partly around the slotted roller t, being advanced step by step by the latter. The arm 5 rocking on a pivot 6 has a pawl 7 for engaging notches in a ratchet wheel lined on the shaft 8; and the arm is rocked by a pitman 9. The latter is rocked by a. lever arm 11 and the upper end of the latter has a roller 12 engaging in a cam groove 13 in a cam let arranged on the main shalt 1:1. At each revolution of the cam 14: the pawl 7 is rocked to turn the shaft 8 and the roller 41 to advance the master pattern card one position or the distance between. the two rows of needles 1. i

The strip 16 which is being" punched travels between the punch blocks 17, 18, and then between the rollers 19, 20 the former having feed pins 21 for engaging; in the feed perforations of the card; and these rollers serve to teed the repeat card step by step in time with the feeding ot the master card. There is an arm 22 on the shaft 23, which arm is pivoted to a link 2% and the other end of the link is pivoted to an arm 25. ranged on the shaft 26. There is apawl 27 carried by the arm 25 and it engages a ratchet on the shatt 2'7 for the purpose of rotatingthe rollers 1.9, 20 to teed the card 16 step by step. There is detent 28 on the arm 25 which also enp'ages the teeth ot the ratchet when the pan; 2'7 disengages therefrom, for the purpose of preventine the shaft 27 from turning' when the pawl 27 is out of the ratchet.

The shaft 8 of the master card roller 4- is carried upon. arms 29 which are pivoted at 30. There is an arm 31 loose on the shaft 8 and the lever arm 32 is pivoted at one end to the shaft 33. The arm 34 on the latter shaft is connected by a pin and slot connection 35 with an arm 36 on the shaft 37. The lever arm 38 is fixed to the shaft 37 and it has a roller 39 engaging in the groove 13 of the cam 14- on the main shattt. The rocking of the lever arms 38, 36 and 34, 32 causes the arms 29 and roller 4t to swing toward and from the several needles.

The punches 40, 41 are arranged in aper- The ovnosite end of the arm 25 is arwhich the upper punch block may return all those punches which through the card which is being punched. The upper punch block 17 is raised by means of a link 48 pivoted to the lever arm 1-5 and to the arm 36 on the shalt 46. The latter has arms 47 which raise the punch block 17 as the shaft 4L6 is rocked.

The punches 4 0, 41 are arranged in two rows in order to get the perforations on the card close together but the perforations made by the two rows of punches are brought into one line by the advancement ii of the card between operations. As this contorms to present practice further details of the operations need not be set forth herein.

Each punch is controlled by an individual'platen 4-8" these platens sliding at right angles to the planes of the punches in a frame 1:9 which is provided with apertn res in the bottom to receive the upper ends of the several punches. Each platen is provided with a recess or notch 50 in its bottom edge and when a platen is positioned to bring its notch in register .ith the corresponding; punch that punch will not be locked and. therefore t will not perforate the card 16 as it will not be torccd down. Then a platen is positioned with its notch 50 away from its ptal'ljlClllill' punch that punch will be forced down with the frame 4-9 and that particular punch will perforate the card.

The punch trame 19 is carried upon links 51 which are pivoted to arms 52 projecting forwardly trom the shaft to which they are fixed. The shaft 53 is rocked throu/rh an fixed at one end thereto and havinp; a roller on its opposite end which travels in the g oove otthe cam l The platen frame 49 is thus periodically lowered and raised to cause the several punches to perforate the jacquard card.

The platens 4B are moved hackwardlv or to the right in Figure 2 by the master c rd and they are mechanically returned after each, operation by the following means. There are links 56 loosely journaled on the ishatt and at their lower ends they carry plate 57 which engages the rear ends oi the several platens 4:8 for the purpose of moving; them forwardly. There is a rod 58 pivoted to an eye 59 on the plate 57 and this rod has a yoke 60 on its Forward end which straddles and is guided hy the main shaft 15. There is a roller 61 on the end of this rod 58'which is operated by the cam (i2- on the main shaft for drawing ba ck the bar 58 and the plate 57, springs 63 serving to move these parts forwardly. At each revolution of the main shaft 15 the bar 58 and plate 57.

are drawn backwardly by the canr62 and lclO then the bar and plate are drawn forwardly by the springs 63. As the plate 57 moves backwardly, or to the right in Figure 2 it permits any of the platens to be moved backwardly and as the plate 57 moves for wardly it returns the original positions.

The parts thus far described correspond with present practice and my presentimprovements relate to the devices for modifying the punching operations to cause certain transpositions in the punching operation.

On theshaft 64; there are forwardly extending arms 65 which carry a movable shaft 66 which is adapted to be swung downwardly and upwardly when the shaft 64 is rocked; and a hand lever 67 is adapted to swing this latter shaft to place the transposing device into or out of operation. There .are several fingers 68 hung from the shaft 66 and they have yokes 69 which straddle the latter and permit the fingers to move horizontally relatively to the shaft 66 though the fingers rise and fall with the latter. On certain of the platens (four as shown) there are fixed guides 70 through which the fingers 68 project and in which they are adapted to slide vertically. These fingers 68 are adapted to be lowered into position to lie between certain of the platens and the slides 71 which operate these particular platens, for a purpose which will be set forth hereinafter. The rocking of the shaft 64 by the handle 67 serves either to project the lower ends of the fingers 68 between the slides 71 and platens or else to withdraw thein according to whether perforations are to be transposed or whether the master card is to be copied exactly.

The use of the fingers 68 necessitates a modification in the platen returning device and for this purpose I have provided slots 72 in the forward edge of the plate 57 in line with the platens on which the fingers 68 operate. These slots allow certain platens to move back to a position to the rear of the remaining platens but they are only used when the machine is used for transposing. There is a plate 73 attached to the plate 57 by thumb screws 75 threaded into the plate 57 and passing through slots in theplate 73. The plate 73 has slots 74which are adapted to register with the slots 72in the plate 57 when the machine is used for transposing but when the plate 73 ismoved to the right to the position shown in figure 5 the slots 74: in the plate 73 are no longer in registeriwith the slots 72 in plate 57 and 'consequently all platens will bereturned to corresponding position when the returning plates 57 goes forwardly.

The needles 76 engage the feed pins 77 on the roller 4 which operates the master pattern and these needles reciprocate their platens back to their respective slides 71 each time the needles strike the feed pins 77 of the roller 4 the same as in present practice. The slide 71 thus operatedeifocts the operation of cor responding platens and punches for punching the feeding apertures in the card being punched. Beyond the feed punching needles 76' there are certain needles 78 and slides which effect the punching of perforations to control the operation of special function devices in. the embroidering machine but since these are not necessarily altered by the application of my present invention further description of them is un necessary. I

Between the needles 76 there are 32 needles 1 in the embodiment of my invention shown, and where the device is to be used in conjunction with the Groebli jacquard these needles may beconsidered as representing four groups each containing 8 needles. The seven needles 79 of each group are adapted to control the perforations which effect the coupling ofthe moving devices in the jacquard; and where the card is to be used in a Groebli jacquard the perforations made through those needles control the slidesj in the patent to Groebli, N 0. 528,632, and thereby eifectthe coupling of the slides'G. and the slides m-m in said patent to cause the movement of the tambour frame of the embroidering machine varying extents. For each group of needles there is a direction controlling needle these beingshow n at 80 and counting from left to right in Figure 3 they are the first, ninth,

seventeenth and twenty fifth needles of the These needles determine the whole series. direction. of. motion of the tambour frame moving devices of the embroidering machine and the perforations effected in the card by them control the coupling of the members J, D in the said Groebli patent and thereby determine whether theme/mbers whichmove the tambour frame are to move right or left hand. In the present case the perforations inthe master card controlling the direction slides of the jacquard are transposed, so that where a perforation appears on the master there will be a solid portion on the corresponding position in the reproduced card and where there is a solid portion in the master card there will be a perforation in the corresponding position in the reproduced card. i i

The needles 80 are connected with the slides 71 which control certain platensefi and these latter are the platens with which the fingers 68 are associated and which are affected by the slots 72, 74- in the plates 57 the slots 72 of the plate 57 and the screws will be again tigl'itencd to keep the plate 73 in this position. The several slots 7%., 72 of the plates 73, 57 will be in line with the platens d8 which control the punches for making the perforations controlling the direction slides in the jacquard. The handle 67 will be moved to rock the shaft Get and this will lower the fingers 68 so that their lower ends are interposed between the ends of the slides 71 and the forward ends of the corresponding platens d8.

A master card having been placed around the roller at and a blank card having been threaded between the punch blocks, 17 18 and the rollers 19, 20 the machinewill operate as follows: Starting with the slides, needles and the platens all in their forward position, the roller t will be swung back toward the needles by the rocking of the lever arms 38, 36, S t, 3-4, 31 actuated by the cam 1% on the main shaft. The master card will be pressed against the rows of needles 1 and those needles which contact with a solid portion of the master card will, with their respective slides, be forced backwardly: whereas those needles which are in line with perforations in the master card will remain idle. The needles and slides are thus operated in accordance with the master card. Be fore this operation takes place all the platens 4.8 which are operated by the needles 79 are in a forward position with their slots 50 out of register or forward of the respective punches which is the initial position. If the machine were not being used for transposition the platens 4l8 controlled by the needles could be in corresponding positions, but as operated for transposing the platens d8 controlled by needles 80, will be in a position behind the remaining platens with their rear ends projectinginto the slots 7%, 72 in the plates 73, 57. In the above described operation the needles 7 9 which are moved back by the master card will move their corresponding platens back and this will bring such platens into position with their slots 50 in line with the respective punches. However, the slides in line with the finger (38, i. e., the direction slides, will, because of the interposition of the fingers 68, move their corresponding platens back to positions beyond the other platens and this is permitted by the slots 72, 74 in the plates 7 3, 57. The platens which are thus moved back by the needles 80 will have their slots 50 moved away from their respective punches, which is the reverse of the other platens.

After the roller e and master card have been reciprocated, the frame 41:9 and upper punch block move down and the punches which have been locked by their platens will be forced through the repeat card. The frame 49 will then move up again remaining slides in and all the platens which were moved bacl: before wil be moved forward again by the return of the returning plate 57. The platens operated by the needles 79 will be returned to a position with their slots 50 out of register withtheir respective punches but owing to the slots 72, 74 in the plates 57, 73 the platens operated by the needles 80 will be returned to positions with their slots 50 over the respective punches.

In the above operations the fingers 68 are forced back with the slides which are moved back and they are moved forwardly again when the respective platens L8 are moved forwardly. The yokes 69 permit these fingers 68 to thus move in relation to their supporting shaft.

In the above operation the needles 79 which entered apertures in the master card were not moved and therefore their platens remained forward and locked their respective punches so that these punches were forced through the repeat card andforined perforations exactly as in the master card. ll hereas, the needles 80 which aligned with apertures in the master card were not movedand their respective platens were left with their slots 50 in register with the respective punches and those needles 8() which met solid portions of the master card forced their respective platens back to positions to loci: the respective punches. Therefore, the direction punches formed perforations in the repeat card where there were solid portions in the corresponding positions on the master card and they left the repeat card unperforated in positions where there were perforations in the master card.

After each punching operation the roller l and master card are i moved forward again and the roller 4: is turned by the pawl 7 to bring a new line of perforations in line wih the several needles. Also, the rollers 19, 20 and repeat card 16 are advanced one step by the pawl 27. The above operations are repeated until the whole card has been punched.

.llach slide in groupll is connected by a bent rod with a platen alt; in the group ll of platens being the third group from the left. The slide 80 which controls the direction perforation is connected with the platen in group H which controls the direction punch of this group and each of the witha platen in group ll bearing a similar position in the group as the slide in its group H. Wherever there are perforai'zions in the master card in line with the needles in. group ll, these perforations will be transposed on the repeat card to the third group or to a position corre ponding with the punches controlled by the platens in group H.

The needles and slides in group I, which group fl is connected is the second group from the left, are connected by bent rods with platens bearing similar positions in the group I of platens, which is the last group on the right. Therefore, wherever there are perforations in the master card in line with the needles in group I, these perforations will be transposed on the repeat card to positions corresponding to the positions which the platens in group I" bear to the repeat card.

In similar manner the needles and slides in group J, being the third group from the left, are connected by bent rods with platens being corresponding positions in the group J of platens. Therefore, wherever there are perforations in the master card in line with needles in group J, these perforations will be transposed on the repeat card to positions corresponding to the positions which the platens in group J bear to the repeat card.

In similar manner the needles and slides in group If, being the fourth group from the left. are connected by bent rods with platens bearing corresponding positions in the group X of platens which is the second group from the left. Therefore, wherever there are perforations in the master card in line with needles in group K, these perforations will be transposedon the repeat card to positions corresponding to the positions which the platens in group K bear to the repeat card.

The result of these transpositions in the repeat card when the same is used in a jacqin rd such as is shown in said Groebli patent is to apply to the member C in said patent the movements which would be applied to the member B if the master card were used: and to apply to the member B the movements which would be applied to the member C if the master card were used.

In the transposing operation the direction perforations are reversed; that is, where there is a perforation in the master card for controlling a direction member in the jacquard, then in the repeat card there will be a solid portion in the transposed position corresponding therewith in the repeat card since the platens affected by the fingers 68 are moved back to different positions by their controlling needles than the other platens.

It will be apparent, therefore, that member B in said Groebli patent will be operated by the repeat card where the member C would be operated by the master card and the member O is moved by the repeat card where the member 13 would be moved by the master card: and the members B and G are moved in just the reverse directions by the member C to member B and reversing the directions of the movements, that the tambour frame of the enrbroidering machine will be moved so that the whole pattern will be either ta-nsposed from a right hand to a left hand position or vice versa.

Having described my invention, what I claim is ,v

1. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combinatlton of punching members for I making rows of perforations in a repeat acquard-card and consisting of a plurality of groups or series, platens adapted to individually lock the punching members for operation, slides operated by a master jacquardcard comprising a plurality of groups or series and means connecting the individual slides in said groups with individual platens bearing similar relative positions but in dif ferent groups of said platens, whereby the operations of said slides are transposed to effect the transposition of the perforations in the repeat card.

2. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of punching members for making rows of perforations in a repeat jacquard-card, and consisting of a plurality of groups or series, platens adapted to individually lock the punching members for operation, slides operated by a master jacquard-ca-rd, comprising a plurality of groups or series, means connecting the individual slides in said groups with individual platens bearing similar relative positions but in different groups of said platens, whereby the operations of said slides are transposed, and means for reversing the operations of cer tain slides of the groups upon the perforating members whereby perforations will be made where there are corresponding solid portions in the master card and vice versa.

3. In a jacquard-card repeating machine the combination of punching members for making rows of perforations in a repeat jacquard-card, and consisting of a plurality of groups or series, platens adapted to individually lock the punching members for operation, slides operated by a master jacquard-card, comprising a plurality of groups or series, means connecting the individual slides in said groups with individual platens bearing similar relative positions in the groups but in dilferent groups, whereby the operations of said slides are transposed, and means for reversing the operations of certain of said slides in the groups upon the perforating members, comprising members adapted to be inserted between certain of said slides and their corresponding platens.

Signed at Beacon, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, this 9th day of August, 1920.

LOUIS names. 

